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Descent Into Delta

by Talvihorros

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Gamma 03:10
2.
Beta 07:49
3.
Alpha 08:09
4.
Theta 10:20
5.
Delta 08:52

about

“Add Descent Into Delta to Ben Chatwin’s ongoing run of spectacular Talvihorros releases”
Textura

“…it’s Chatwin’s ear for melody that really impresses, imbuing the album with a sense of gut-wrenching melancholy and drama…”
Drowned In Sound

“In ‘Descent into Delta’ Chatwin conjures elemental pictures, with a weight of gravity and voluminous space that are impressively rendered.”
Futuresequence

“For a record that relies solely on instrumental music this is a considerable achievement which gives true meaning to the much over-used term, ‘emotional journey’.”
Leonard’s Lair

“I felt nothing but the greatest amount of joy listening to this deliberate slow moving beast of an album.”
Beach Sloth

“One of the best guitar-drone albums of the year so far.”
L’Apartament18

A year passes by and finally Talvihorros is back with his latest album Descent Into Delta to be released on both vinyl and CD. The man behind this one man guitar driven excursion is London based Ben Chatwin who in addition to hibernate has had material released through Benbecula, My Dance The Skull and our sister label Rural Colours. Despite only recently forming the Talvihorros project in 2008, Chatwin has been experimenting with sound ever since he first picked up a guitar as a teenager. His live performances have seen him share a stage with the likes of Tim Hecker, Stephan Mathieu and Ian Hawgood to name just a few. Chatwin has to this point juggled live performances and studio work as two separate entities with studio material being culled from sounds derived from as many different instruments as possible and live performances being restricted to just guitar and pedals.

Descent Into Delta marks the blurring of the lines which separate these two disciplines. It was live performance that ignited the production of this record, which began life as a series of live improvisations, these were then selected and edited over a long period of time. During the mixing process the concept to Descent Into Delta was born and it slowly developed through many hours of editing and arrangement. Chatwin became interested in different states of mind, realising it actually produces frequencies or waves - much like sound, itself. When the mind is alert, awake or anxious, these waves are Gamma, at the other extreme, during deep sleep, Delta waves are produced. It was in turn Chatwin's intention that the sounds of Descent Into Delta would loosely depict a journey from Gamma through to Delta, as a kind of experiment to see whether the listener could be subconsciously encouraged to trace this path through sound.

Towards the last few moments of the album on the last track 'Delta', Chatwin was joined by viola player Anais Lalange who added a subtle but effective impact to the closing stages of this record. The addition of this instrument brings a whole new dimension and texture to the guitar explorations of Talvihorros.

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released August 26, 2011

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All tracks written and produced by Ben Chatwin © 2011
Viola on track 5 by Anais Lalange
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Mastered by James Plotkin
Design by Jordan Chatwin
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Ben Chatwin Scotland, UK

Ben Chatwin is an experimental electronic composer who works primarily with modular synths and other hardware to create densely layered soundscapes with sweeping emotional resonances. His music combines brutalist rhythms with drifting strings and synths, to create music that is at once abstract and cinematic. ... more

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